Posted on 11/08/2020 6:01:58 AM PST by Texan4Life
Conservative radio Talk Show host Michael Savage poses the question "Is It Time To End Our Two Party System? Our Fractured Society"
“Is It Time To End Our Two Party System? Our Fractured Society”
As for ending our fractured society, AOC is talking seriously (as much as she is capable of that) of starting up a “Trump Accountability Project” to provide payback to those who helped Trump gain and exercise power...and the list of people that project will gather is to include donors to his campaign. No worries, Mike, the new Beria will take care of the fractures in our society by simply throwing half of it into gulags...that’s what history says that governments compiling lists do with those on those lists.
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I’m done with the GOP-Eeyore/Unipartistas.
I’ll be doing a lot of “undervoting” henceforth.
But coalition majorities work out so well everywhere else, don't they? Think Israel here folks.
We already have a multiparty system, nobody cares. You would have to change to a parliamentary system for that to be effective. If you want change, you have to take over a major party, just as the GOP went from paleocon to neocon to populist.
It’s not the “two party system” that’s the issue or the problem.
It’s not hunting down and slaughtering the sub-human filth that is our existential enemy following the pathological lies sloppily dressed up as an ideology that is the problem.
We could have a 100 parties and most of them would be dominated by these depraved degenerates because we refuse to deal with the scumbags.
Savage put out an idea to end the Winner-Take-All setup, and whomever wins the Presidency, the VP will be of the other party, the runner-up will be VP, or if they don’t want the VP, someone else from that runner-up party.
Savage has some very insightful things he says from time to time. That’s what I admire him for.
I for one, do not daily listen to any talk show person, be it Rush, or Hannity, or Levin, or Savage. So it’s not that easy to get my panties in a wad over something said about another...
Think Belgium !
I think they went three years with a caretaker government because the “parties” couldn’t form a coalition.
It is long past time to end the party system.
There should be no formal recognition of political parties.
There should be no primaries using government equipment and personnel.
Each candidate should run on his own. He can claim membership in whatever private organizations he likes, but nothing should be listed on the ballot but his name and whether or not he is an incumbent.
It's not the requirement of a majority in the Electoral College, it's the states' requirement of winner-take-all that does it.
If all the states were like Maine and Nebraska with congressional district apportionment of their electoral votes, we'd see more regional parties getting Electoral College votes. This would result in more cases of the House of Representatives choosing, because it reduces the number of EV that the leader will get. Siphon off enough Electoral Votes, and the 270 threshold becomes harder to meet.
-PJ
I think removing winner-take all is more important (and the ONLY POSSIBLE) way to solve this problem.
You can’t legislate away the D and R parties.
But ending winner-take-all would do the same thing.
Without being sure of which CDs will win, the "slates" will be at the Congressional district level. In fact, the ballots might even just list the Electors who are "running" in your district and you vote directly for an Elector, not a President nor a party.
Currently, there is no guarantee that the Electors are dispersed in the state -- they could all come from the state capital. Congressional district level allocation of EVs would force electors to be dispersed regionally, too.
Without binding, this might even make a state's Electoral College vote an interesting exercise in coalition building, like we see in parliamentary systems.
-PJ
That could certainly bring impeachments into fashion depending on who wins the House and Senate.
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